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Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature (Hardcover, New)
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'Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature'
offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the
politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on a
selection of recent novels by black British and British Asian
writers. The study argues that an understanding of how race and
ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained
through attention to antiracism: the politics of opposing
discrimination that manifest at the level of state legislation,
within local and national activism, and inside the scholarly
exploration of race. It is antiracism that now most strongly
conditions the emergence of racial categorisations but also of
racial identities and models of behaviour. This sense of how
antiracism may determine the form and content of both political
debate and individual identity is traced through an examination of
ten novels by black British and British Asian writers. These
authors range from the well known to the critically neglected:
works by Monica Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Fred D'Aguiar, Ferdinand Dennis,
Hanif Kureishi, Gautam Malkani, Caryl Phillips, Mike Phillips,
Zadie Smith, and Meera Syal are carefully read to explore the
impacts of antiracism. These literary studies are grouped into
three main themes, each of which is central to the direction of
racial political identities over the last two decades in Britain:
the use of the continent of Africa as a symbolic focus for black
political culture; the changing forms of Muslim culture in Britain;
and the emergence of a multiculturalist ethos based around the
notion of ethnic communities.
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